EXCL: Nigel Farage appeared on Russell Brand’s US podcast nine months after the comedian was investigated by police over allegations of sexual assault @rowenamason reveals
The Reform UK leader has criticised Labour for “cosying up to” and “promoting” Brand a decade ago, after the comedian was sentenced this week to more than 10 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.
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Egyptian-American surgeon Adam Hamawy, who volunteered in Gaza during the genocidal war and performed more than 100 surgical operations, has won a seat in the U.S. Congress representing the state of New Jersey, becoming the first Muslim to represent the state in its history.
You have to be joking. There is absolutely no way Abdul El-Sayed would have been allowed to stand as a Labour MP - and most likely would have been kicked out of the Party years ago.
The Labour Party blocked Faiza Shaheen standing as a candidate for sharing a skit by Jon Stewart and talking about her own experience of Islamophobia.
These pictures of Reform councillor George David Madgwick posing alongside Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Zia Yusuf and Laila Cunningham were taken after his arrest.
He has now been charged with 35 offences, including rape and offences involving indecent images of children.
The question is why he was still being paraded alongside the party's most senior figures after his arrest?
🚨🇬🇧 UPDATE: Danny Tommo. Let's get some facts straight.
There was no last-minute move. A judge listed Danny Tommo’s Westminster hearing on 2 October. PA reported it the same day.
Last night his son, using Tommo's account, told 482,000 people his Dover case was due in Kent “tomorrow” and had been moved to Westminster “less than 24 hours” before.
The record says otherwise. On 2 October, at Margate Magistrates’ Court, District Judge William Nelson sent the case to Westminster Magistrates’ Court for a case management hearing on 4 November. LBC and others reported it that afternoon. Five weeks’ notice.
Today’s hearing is case management in the Dover case. The dinghy trial hasn’t moved. It’s still listed at Portsmouth Crown Court for 1 March 2027.
Why Westminster? Since 2005, any magistrates’ court in England and Wales can hear any summary offence. Westminster is where the Chief Magistrate sits, and that bench hears the country's most sensitive cases. Tommy Robinson’s harassment case went through the same building.
Belmarsh. His family says he has been told he’ll be held there. No outlet has confirmed it. If it happens, that’s a Prison Service decision, not the court’s. Belmarsh also works as a reception prison, and remand prisoners there are unclassified. Being held there doesn’t make him a Category A prisoner.
The family’s fear for his safety may well be real. The prison has a legal duty to manage it, wherever he’s held.
Rupert Lowe MP has written to the minister calling the decision “inexplicable.” His stated source: “His son has reported the move.”
One of Tommo’s own supporters checked the LBC report last night and posted the correction. It reached 7,600 people.
The record was one search away.
🚨🇬🇧 They say, “Tommy was protecting his family.” “They did it to him first.”
Two excuses. A jury heard and rejected both.
The Mail wrote about a public figure on holiday. Tommy hired private investigators to photograph journalists’ homes, then told a million followers “I will find you.”
That isn’t the same thing. And it isn’t protection.
Here’s what the jury actually heard.
What happened
In August 2024, while England was rioting, Robinson was on holiday in Cyprus, posting about the riots to his followers. The Mail found him there and ran a story: “Stoking riots from his sunbed.”
Over the next three days he went after the two reporters, Jacob Dirnhuber and Andrew Young.
🔺5 August: a direct message to Dirnhuber. “I’ll be knocking at your door.”
🔺5 August: a phone call to Young. Robinson told him he’d be coming to his home and that he’d “have to move house.”
🔺6 August: a post naming Dirnhuber, saying he and the other Mail journalists had “today been located.”
🔺7 August: a video to around a million followers. He said he had details of where they and their families lived. He told them to abide by “men’s rules.” Then: “The men, on the other hand, I will find you.”
He also hired private investigators to photograph their homes. He admitted it in court.
The result: Dirnhuber moved house. Young was given a close protection officer.
The law
The charge was harassment causing fear of violence. The prosecution had to prove a course of conduct that made each man fear violence on at least two occasions, and that Robinson knew or ought to have known it would.
That last part is an objective test. What Robinson says he meant doesn’t decide it. What decides it is what a reasonable person would expect a million followers to do with “I will find you.”
His defence
He said he was protecting his family. That is a real defence in law, if the conduct is reasonable for protecting someone. Police had given him four threat-to-life warnings. The jury heard all of it.
Why it failed
He admitted the aim was pressure. Telling a million people where journalists live doesn’t protect your children. It endangers theirs.
🔺He didn’t dispute that they were frightened. Asked in evidence, he said no.
🔺He never complained to the press regulator. He never asked the Mail to change or remove the story. The legal route was there. He skipped it.
🔺His own words. “Men’s rules” is not the language of protection.
One is journalism, however much you dislike it. The other is a threat.
The jury
He chose this. At the magistrates’ court he was offered a trial there. He opted for a jury instead, saying he wanted 12 members of the British public to hear the evidence.
They did. They convicted on both counts.
Sentencing is on 16 December.
@jgro_the For the sake of accuracy which is important in journalism, can you show us where the ‘extensive plagiarism’ was proven since you are writing it as a fact?
I can see is that as recently as last week, Taylor & Francis cleared him. Tragically, this has been done posthumously.
Councils Begin Process of Fining Illegal Flag Shaggers and one of the first to receive a fine is the leader of the Raise the Colours campaign, Ryan Bridge who has received a fine for £48,000.
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The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word… https://t.co/SnTkSMaNV0
@NadimHCr@NadimHCr as this is a govt commissioned report published on a govt website I think it should be reported to the Office for Statistics Regulation. Believe me ministers care when this regulator finds fault with methodologies used in reports.
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Trott is factually incorrect in her portrayal of the situation at Bristol Brunel Academy, and it is ill-befitting of any politician to make such inaccurate statements.
As she should be aware there have been two reviews which have cleared the school and its culture of any antisemitism.
The targeting of individual union activists in the current political climate is deeply irresponsible and dangerous.
The NEU will robustly defend its representatives.
Jenna Lennon, Tommy Robinson’s ex-wife, was in court the other day, where she pleaded not guilty to charges of hiding company financial records.
There is a over £1M black hole in her company, Hope & Pride Ltd, and she also owes HMRC £319K in unpaid corporation tax.
She failed to account for £1.17M in receipts, while £1.13M in expenditure payments could not be verified.
Hope & Pride Ltd was used to process donations and merchandise sales for the TR News website.
Jenna has been banned from acting as a company director for seven years.
She is now out on bail and awaiting trial, which is set for 31st of July 2028.
Tommy Robinson is blaming her accountant saying that he didn’t file it because he apparently doesn't like Tommy.
Remember when Tommy Robinson had a bitch fit over the daily mail doxxing Tommo & his mum had to get a new house 😢
He did the same thing, he doxxed 2 reporters, threatened them to the point they had to leave home.
This isn’t the media silencing him, don’t believe his shit!
If people want to understand the objections to Elon Musk, look at what he chooses to do with his enormous resources.
Today, he has reportedly spent another £200,000 on the legal costs of Tommy Robinson, a far-right, drug-addicted thug with a long criminal record.
Robinson was convicted in 2005 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assaulting an off-duty police officer, receiving a 12-month sentence. In 2011, he was convicted of assault after headbutting a man and received a 12-week suspended sentence. That same year, he was convicted of threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour after a football-related brawl and received a community rehabilitation order.
In 2013, he was jailed for 10 months after using somebody else’s passport to enter the United States. In 2014, he received 18 months for mortgage fraud. In 2019, he was jailed for contempt of court after interfering with proceedings in a grooming-gang trial. And in 2024, he received another 18 months for deliberately breaching a court injunction by repeating false allegations about a Syrian schoolboy.
Now, in 2026, he is back in court facing two charges of harassment causing fear of violence against journalists. He denies the charges.
Rather than using that money to help the hungry, the homeless, the sick, Elon Musk is choosing to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds helping fund his legal battles.
Can someone who supports Musk genuinely explain the moral justification for this?
🚨 NEW: The BBC has now suspended its secondment scheme for civil servants after revelations they helped write and fact-check stories on contentious issues such as small boats
Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, Luke Campbell, is under police investigation over allegations that he showed a female colleague four naked and sexualised images of himself at work.
The woman said she was left “shocked, embarrassed and humiliated” after Campbell and male colleagues laughed at her reaction.
She said: “I was deliberately exposed to naked and sexualised images involving the mayor in the workplace, without my consent, and was laughed at when I was visibly embarrassed. In my view, this was unwanted conduct of a sexual nature which violated my dignity and created a humiliating, degrading and offensive working environment.”
A witness also described seeing Campbell lower his trousers to reveal a tan line and a tattoo on his lower abdomen.
Three weeks after the alleged incident, the woman’s offer of a permanent job was withdrawn. She alleges that she lost the position because she rejected unwanted sexual conduct.
Can anyone remember the last time @BBCNews interviewed a Palestinian about their experience of the racism of Zionism? Having spent the last two weeks interviewing elderly Nakba survivors in Jordan, driven off their land in their teens because of their ethnicity and religion, I'd be happy to suggest some astonishingly articulate victims of Israeli racism who would be only too happy to tell their tragic stories of eviction, slaughter and dispossession. It is like reporting on the Civil Rights movement in the US and only interviewing outraged Whites
@bbclaurak@bbcnickrobinson@JustinOnWeb@BBCr4today
To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.
A majority of the 635 children held in Israeli prisons in 2025 were put in solitary confinement, usually for between one and two weeks – some up to eight times.
92 per cent of those children had not been sentenced.
A third had not even been charged with an offence.
The world's highest court says Israel is an apartheid state. Its decades-long occupation is illegal.